[Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form

Zahid Malik z.malik@ic.ac.uk
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:11:13 +0000


I couldn't agree more. Zope really needs login forms and a proper way 
for users to logout. I know that there are products that try and do
these things but it should be built-in.


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:06:10PM -0500, Trevor Toenjes wrote:
> This is a FAQ that I have never seen a good answer for...
> I have never found a how-to or any references to the API.
> 
> The best solutuion I have seen is to search for "User products" that
> implement their own way of doing things. (search for CookieCrumbler,
> XUF..etc.)  And read the source.
> But this doesnt really help you with your question...
> "how to do it yourself."
> 
> IMHO, this is a shortcoming of Zope and since I am lobbying for this... :)
> Add your 2 cents in that "the acl_users API be extended for HTML
> login-forms, cookie auth, and extensible-properties-of-users" should be
> added to Z2.6.  An API needs to be defined to deprecate all these user
> solutions that dont play well together.
> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> > aleciesse@infinito.it
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:18 AM
> > To: zope@zope.org
> > Subject: [Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form
> >
> >
> > Hi all, I'm a Zope really new user. I'm trying to writing a form
> > to make users log in from a site page, without using the HTTP
> > standard authentication window. How can I do this? What methods I
> > have to recall and what paramteres I have to pass them?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Alex Cordero
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